[odf-discuss] Sun's OpenDocument filter for MS office released

[Mirko Nasato]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> It looks like Sun has made an initial release of their plugin for MS
> Office to read ODF files. It only supports text documents so far, no
> spreadsheets or presentations:
>
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/92193
>
Interesting.

> Does anyone know if this plugin requires a server-side copy of
> OpenOffice? Or does it work stand-alone? I don't have a copy of MS
> Office to test on.
>
It can be downloaded from Sun as well

  http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/index.xml

but looks like it's for Windows only (well, it's a Microsoft Office
plugin after all).

Anybody knows if it's in any way related to the converter initially
released by Novell?

  http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net

That one is written in .NET so it can be made to run on Linux using Mono.

Kind regards

Mirko